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SARA SIMS, STOCK-OPTION TRADER, SHOWS HOW TO MAKE MONEY GROWING TREES

Sara Sims, Jim Vardaman’s cousin, has been trading in options on listed stocks from her office at home for 25 years.  In a financial market that most people never heard of and in which many have failed, she has succeeded by diligent, intelligent application.  While the markets are open, she keeps the TV tuned to CNBC, the channel with stock prices running across the bottom of the screen, and glances at it often during the day.  She also keeps a real-time quote system on her computer and checks prices of her positions to be sure that no action is required.  At the end of every trading day, she records closing prices of about 50 stocks and some options that she follows regularly.  In addition to usual news magazines, she regularly reads special publications on options and articles that are important to her in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist, and CFO. She also monitors the daily market summaries on CNBC and Wall Street Week every Friday.

Not long after she started, she joined an option message board with about 20 persons who live and operate in California, Montana, Washington, DC, West Palm Beach, and cities in between.  These men and women work as hard on options as she does and have similar levels of option skills.  Neophytes in the business won’t understand most of their e-mail exchanges.  They benefit from swapping ideas in a field so huge that no one can master all of it.  All of them make their own decisions; they do not use advisors to tell them what to do.  The only help they get from stock brokers is superb and reasonably-priced execution of their frequent orders.

Applying Sara’s Techniques to the Forestry Business

Private landowners in SE U.S., who manage enormous amounts of capital, will soon learn that the sources available to them to study their business are far more limited and difficult to access.  We try to fill in the gaps with www.vardaman.com.  All key areas of knowledge in 50,000 pages of data are separated into important subjects by the red buttons down the left side of the home page.  When you have questions about various aspects of your tract, you should first study all the data we’ve published about them.  Later when you still need help from others, your questions on our Discussion Forum will indicate that you are seriously interested in the problem and thus will attract the interest of and replies from experts.  (You won’t get much response by posting, “Please tell me what to do with my land.”)  Finally, when you decide what needs to be done, you can call on JMV&CO or others to secure superb execution of your orders and no advice on what to do.

You should notice that Sara is seldom interested in the level of the DJIA or the NASDAQ or S&P index.  The only data important to her are prices of stocks that she follows.  You should take the same attitude to regional or periodic timber price averages.  Sara checks daily the exact value of her long and short positions.  If you have only a general idea of what yours are worth and especially how much timber you own by one- or two-inch DBH classes, you should find out.  Otherwise all your plans for the future are mere guesses.  If you don’t know how to predict growth, the recipe is on www.vardaman.com.  If you still can’t understand how to do it, call us, and we’ll show you.  We’ll charge, of course, because we’ve done our best to give you a free answer.

Sara started with capital about equal to the value of the smallest timber tract on our mailing lists.  You’d be amazed if we told you what she has built it into while ironing her husband’s shirts, raising five children, and taking an active part in church work.  You should start imitating her now.  You will produce the same effect on your capital account.